adpinc has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello there!
I'm a long time Perl writer. I've been writing Perl scripts for years. This is the first time I've ever hit a roadblock that a simple google search or flip through one of my books didn't help.
I've written many webpages with CGI.pm. Works great. I have come across a need to spawn a background process and want the parent to continue after launching the code.
I've tried embedding the '&' in a system call. I've tried leading with a "1" and a "nohup." I've tried Proc::Background and Proc::Simple. I've tried various fork() code snippets. I've tried setting $|=1.
No matter what happens, when my webpage code hits the line to spawn the background process, the webpage waits until the child process completes before continuing.
The background process works fine.
I just cannot seem to get the Parent process calling the child to simply move on to the next line of code.
I am on a Linux platform running Perl 5.008008.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
adpinc

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Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
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